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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Another reason was that he did not suddenly decide to go attack the British fleet in one of their main bases. Admiral Doenitz noticed the gap in the blockships from aerial photographs, picked a time when he knew the harbor would be mostly empty of destroyers, hand-picked Gunther Prien for the job and then the two of them did a lot of very careful planning.
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Yeah, and that was a once-in-a-lifetime situation, save except for some other german kaleun that torpedoed a couple of tankers in some african mid-atlantic harbour, I dont remember where or when, but surely a rare situation.
I am myself a fan of harbour-rainding, but that relates to what the game allows, not to RL conditions... being slow and vulnerable in a 45-feet cristal-clear lagoon was not somewhere a captain would normally go into.